Floating Limbs describes a somewhat rare Lazy Artist trick for arms and legs (or lack thereof). Mainly, a character lacks anything visibly connecting their hands or their feet to the rest of their body.

A subtrope of Invisible Anatomy, although the former can be excused due to conservation of detail, while in this trope the seemingly missing pieces are clearly missing.

The last and largest transformation stage of the Gurren Lagann in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has body parts like this, as well as the Anti-Spiral's counterpart.

Arts

Street signs indicating crosswalks and similar traffic features often show stick figures with no necks, just disembodied heads floating above their shoulders. This is particularly funny when the stick figure is riding a horse with a meticulously rendered mane.

The Love Glove from Doom Patrol has invisible arms and the power to use magic gloves. He was part of the second Brotherhood of Dada.

Eastern Animation

The Hungarian Folktales animated series (at least the earlier episodes), had this as a running gag in the depiction of elderly kings as a bell shaped body and two floating hands. The only exception to this was King Mathias, who would make occasional appearances in a few episodes.

Rayman is the Trope Codifier and (former) Trope Namer for this. Word of God is that this was actually a space-saving shortcut; eliminating Rayman's arms freed up precious kilobytes that could be used elsewhere, making this a latter-day throwback to Mario's character design, which was also influenced by the hardware's capabilities. Also, it would be hard to throw his fists around like that if they were attached to his body.... Finally given an in-universe explanation in Rayman Origins: When he was created by a bunch of fairies, they happened to lose a few parts in making him. Namely, his limbs.

Ni GHTS Into Dreams and its sequel, NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams applies this trope to its Big Bad, Wizeman the Wicked. Wizeman appears as a floating cloaked figure, but six disembodied hands with eyes on the palms float around him.

The Thing Thing series follows this, but it's never pointed out within the story.

Norstein Bekkler, the host of the Millennial Fair fun house in Chrono Trigger.

Bowser in the original Super Mario Bros. game had invisible wrists due to NES limitations. They're supposed to be wristbands, but since his sprite, like all other 8-bit era game sprites, can only have up to three colors, what appears to be Bowser's wristbands are actually empty space.

The Guard Armor boss from the first game has five separate parts: two legs, two floating arms, and a floating torso. All five parts are attackable, and in some tournament matches you'll actually fight against its disembodied extremities/torso.

The "Miis", people who can be made on any Nintendo system from Wii onwards, have no limbs in certain games or apps (such as Wii Sports or the StreetPass Mii Plaza), but, oddly, clearly do have arms in other games. In Wii Sports' baseball alone, the Miis constantly switch from merely being a head and torso, to having hands, legs, and feet.

Straw Critic Jasper's head generally appears to be attached to the body, right up against the suit's collar. However, there are some scenes where the head detaches from its normal position during his grandstanding (e.g. when you first meet him). In Jasper's case it seems to be a utility thing, like Rayman's limbs; since he never actually leaves his seat, (and may indeed be too fat to move — should we mention that his surname is Rolls?) his hands and head are responsible for all his body language, so for a guy as fat as he is, not having a neck allowed the animators to make him much more expressive.

The dancer's in Milla's mindscape have limbs and necks that taper off to a point just short of actually connecting.

The titular worms in the Worms series have Floating Arms since Worms 2, except in the intros of Worms 2 and World Party.

Joka (renamed Joker in the Wii remake) in Klonoa: Door to Phantomile had no arms or legs. His appearance was modified in the remake, in which he is given thin arms and legs, but they disappear when he becomes a boss, with no reason given whatsoever.

The characters of Madness Combat don't have arms or legs, merely a barely modeled head (with a cross to represent where their face would be drawn on), a simple body and floating hands and feet. These characters, however, dress themselves up in ways that make them look very unique and recognizeable.

The eponymous heroine of Redd has hands like this, but it's a Justified Trope in that she was born without arms and controls mechanical hands with some sort of anti-gravity technology with her thoughts.

In Tails of Lanschilandia, Big Bad Kakralomino appears to have no legs (there's an empty space between his feet and the rest of his body), but has perfectly normal arms.

In Blitzcrafter, certain scenes are rendered with predrawn sprites, which feature people's heads and limbs floating around a bean body.

Web Original

On the website Postopia (now Team Pebbles), there was a game called Big Mouth Life where you have a mouth for a pet. You could get new designs and clothing for them. The clothing included gloves and shoes, but they didn't any visible limbs or hands and feet for that matter.

In Schoolhouse Rock, Little Twelvetoes's whole body seems to be put together this way. His hat, arms, and torso are made up of white stripe-looking segments separated by empty space. His legs are connected to his pelvis, but he can move them out of contact with his feet. Also, he can stick his hands, head, and feet on any limb he pleases.

On Steven Universe, Peridot's fingers aren't actually connected to her arms, and can reconfigure to form a touchpad-like screen and even a fairly powerful blaster weapon. They also allow very elaborate◊gesticulations. They are, in fact, completely artificial components of her limb enhancers; her real fingers are quite normal.

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